Black leaders were critical to the formation of the modern reproductive rights movement. Black History Month provides an opportunity to pause and remember some oft-forgotten leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Florynce “Flo” Kennedy remains one of the most unfairly forgotten contributors to reproductive politics since the 1960s.
As part of that commitment to sex-based civil rights, Robinson added language announcing that “the right to terminate a pregnancy under medical supervision” would henceforth be a “civil right of every female person.” Sutton’s bill made him a leader in the national movement to reform the laws. Although the draft law failed in New York, versions of it passed two years later in Colorado and California, providing an opening wedge for finally changing 19th century laws that had previously seemed intractable.
In 2023, the reproductive rights movement has an opportunity to two critical forms of repair work at the same time. We must account for our predecessors’ lapses of judgment, empathy and political imagination that let them leave people out and say and do racist things—and we must account for racism when it comes up in the movement today. At the same time, let’s honor the memories of the Black leaders on whose shoulders the movement continues to stand.
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